The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena

What works

Both Butcher Bay and Dark Athen.  Both games played to completion. 

What does not

Game does not launch without patch to mesa; game launches fine in Windows.

Workarounds

A patch must be applied to mesa otherwise the game does not launch. 

My setup is an AMD Raven Ridge 2400g running 4.18.10 Mesa 18.2.1, llvm 7.0.0 running on Mageia 6.

This is the patch:

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--- src/compiler/glsl/builtin_functions.cpp
+++ src/compiler/glsl/builtin_functions.cpp
@@ -2045,7 +2045,7 @@ builtin_builder::create_builtins()
 
    add_function("texture2D",
                 _texture(ir_tex, always_available, glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::sampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
-                _texture(ir_txb, fs_only,          glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::sampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
+                _texture(ir_txb, always_available,          glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::sampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
                 _texture(ir_tex, texture_external, glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerExternalOES_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
                 NULL);
 
@@ -2096,7 +2096,7 @@ builtin_builder::create_builtins()
 
    add_function("textureCube",
                 _texture(ir_tex, always_available, glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
-                _texture(ir_txb, fs_only,          glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
+                _texture(ir_txb, always_available,          glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
                 NULL);
 
    add_function("textureCubeLod",
--- src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp
+++ src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp
@@ -655,6 +655,8 @@ void _mesa_glsl_extension::set_flags(_mesa_glsl_parse_state *state,
  */
 static const _mesa_glsl_extension *find_extension(const char *name)
 {
+   if (strcmp(name, "GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod") == 0)
+      name = "GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod";
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(_mesa_glsl_supported_extensions); ++i) {
       if (strcmp(name, _mesa_glsl_supported_extensions[i].name) == 0) {
          return &_mesa_glsl_supported_extensions[i];

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Since this patch seems only to be necessary for Riddick I didn't add it to my usual build for Mesa.  Here's what I did to apply the patch and build mesa for Mageia 6.

rpm -ivh mesa-18.2.1-2.mga6.src.rpm (you may need to get a more up to date mesa RPM from cauldron.  You'll also need to change python2-mako to python3-mako in the SPEC file.) 

cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES

tar fxvJ mesa-18.2.1.tar.xz

cd mesa-18.2.1

patch -p0 < [the patch above]

tar fcvJ mesa-18.2.1.tar.xz mesa-18.2.1 

cd ../SPECS 

rpm -bs mesa.spec

cd ../SRPMS

(you might want to edit the mesa.spec file to differentiate this one from the previous source rpm)

rpmbuild --rebuild mesa-18.2.1-3.mga6.src.rpm (revved it by 1 to differentiate)

also rebuild for i586 using the src.rpm with the patched code.

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

It's a pity the game is no longer available via commercial sites and going to the trouble above is a bit of a hassle just to get to assume one's alter identity of Vin Diesel.  Still the game plays well on my 2400g and seems to play better on standard wine than Gallium 9.